I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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